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  • active: qualifies an investment management where the fund manager is seeking to`add value`by actively buying/selling stocks/bonds
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • active: at the user side of the interface(U10)(at the network side N10):state which exists for an incoming call when the user has received an acknowledgement from the network that the user has been awarded the call(the network has awarded the call to the called user).This state exists for an outgoing call when the user has received an indication(the network has indicated)that the remote user has answered the call.
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • active: processing or pertaining to radioactivity
    Category: The chemical industry

  • active: category which identifies the subject of a sentence as the actor and the object as the goal,with respect to the action or process denoted by the verb
    Category: Language and literature

  • active: in surveillance,an adjective applied to actions or equipments which emit energy capable of being detected
    Category: Defense

  • anionactive: surface active agent in which the anion(the negative ion)consists of a long carbon chain
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • audio-active: the area in which recording-playback facilities have an undoubted superiority over audio-active listening facilities is that of testing aural-oral skills.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • bioactive: a pigment with biocidal properties
    Category: The chemical industry

  • bioactive: it is harnessing genetic engineering to make medically useful proteins and peptides
    Category: Medicine

  • extractive: in wood,pertaining to any substance that is not an integral part of the cellular structure but can be dissolved out with hot or cold water,ether,alcohol,benzene or other relatively inert solvents
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • fail-active: quality of a dynamic system for remaining correctly operational after any single failure
    Category: Transport

  • hyperactive: the most common cause of urine incontinence (loss of control) in older adults
    Category: Medicine

  • hyperactive: pathway in which a mutation causes any component to issue stimulatory messages autonomously, without waiting for commands from upstream
    Category: Medicine

  • interactive: pertaining to an application in which each entry calls forth a response from a system or program,as in an inquiry system or an airline reservation system
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • interactive: a macro that suspends its execution to ask the user to enter data or to make a choice on grounds of the value of some intermediate results
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • interactive: interactive models are models which allow both,top-down and bottom-up processing
    Category: General

  • interactive: in B-ISDN:a service which provides the means for bidirectional exchange of information between users or between users and hosts;interactive services are subdivided into three classes of services:conversational services,messaging services and retrieval services
    Category: General

  • interactive: a command whose effects appear on the screen as soon as the command is implemented
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • interactive: message to be transmitted and responded to while the transaction is taking place
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • interactive: a program returning messages to the user or asking the user to enter data in order to continue processing
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • interactive: the interactive debugging program often generates full screen hexadecimal memory dump displays instantaneously.Commands include display,store,execute,change memory,dump memory,find data in memory,set,reset and display breakpoints,on many systems
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • interactive: the use of an operator or analyst at a console which provides the means of assessing,pre-processing,feature extracting,classifying,identifying,and displaying the original imagery or the processed imagery for subjective evaluations and further interactions
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • interactive: direct input of data to a computer or other device,in real time in such a way that the operator can control its activity
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • reactive: applying to an inductive or capacitive device or circuit
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • refractive: the ratio of the speed of light in vacuum, air or other medium of reference, to the speed of light in a given medium; the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction when light is refracted from a vacuum (or, to a very close approximation, from air) into the medium
    Category: Physics

  • refractive: the ratio of the velocity of light in vacuum to that in an optically dense medium
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • refractive: the ratio of the velocity of the electromagnetic waves in vacuum to the phase velocity of the waves of the monochromatic radiation in the medium
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • refractive: myopia attributed to the normal variation of the refractive elements of the eye, including axial length
    Category: Medicine

  • refractive: an amount by which the modified refractive index exceeds unity,expressed in millionths
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • refractive: myopia or hyperopia due primarily to a deviation from the average, or some other standard value, of the refractive power of the eye
    Category: Medicine

  • refractive: the description of the refractive index along a fibre diameter
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • refractive: the refractive index as a function of radius
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • refractive: measure of the relative difference in refractive index of the core and cladding of a fibre
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • refractive: the difference between the maximum refractive index n1 occurring in the core of an optical waveguide and the refractive index n2 in the cladding
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • retroactive: a delayed wage payment for work done previously at a lower rate
    Category: Statistics

  • retroactive: the effect of a new tax law on transactions or events which have already taken place,generally seen as unfair in cases when it is disadvantageous to the taxpayer,but may be allowed for,exceptionally,if it proves to be advantageous to the taxpayer,or it is enacted to correct a technical defect in existing legislation,especially where large sums of tax are at stake
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • surface-active: capable of altering the properties of a liquid and especially lowering the tension at the surface of contact between phases
    Category: The chemical industry

  • tractive: the force which the water exerts on the wetted perimeter of a channel because of the motion of water; this force acts in the direction of flow and not normal to the surface as does the static water pressure; further, it is not the force on a single particle, but the force exerted on a certain area of the bed or banks
    Category: The cosmos

  • tractive: the force exerted at the rims of the driving wheels by a traction motor when motoring
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • tractive: the tractive effort corresponding to the hourly rating of the traction motors at rated voltage with a given excitation
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • tractive: the tractive effort corresponding to the continuous rating of the traction motors at rated voltage with a given excitation
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • tractive: force exerted by the weight and velocity of water which tends to cause erosion
    Category: The cosmos

  • tractive: a vehicle equipped with prime mover and motor, or with motor only, intended solely for hauling other vehicles (a 'locomotive') or for both hauling other vehicles and for the carriage of passengers and/or goods (a 'railcar')
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • vasoactive: affecting the calibre of a vessel
    Category: Medicine



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